I'm just wondering......
would it be at all helpfull if on the first morning after they had arrived the afternoon, evening before.......if one was to suggest......
"Breakfast is at 9am. After all that driving you did to get here, you may over sleep. Would you want a wake up knock on the door at 8am ? "
Can't expect them to set the alarm ?.
One Day said:
I'm just wondering......
would it be at all helpfull if on the first morning after they had arrived the afternoon, evening before.......if one was to suggest......
"Breakfast is at 9am. After all that driving you did to get here, you may over sleep. Would you want a wake up knock on the door at 8am ? "
Can't expect them to set the alarm ?
I want you to imagine yourself in the guest room and you've decided to skip breakfast because something better is going on in the room. And now someone knocks on the door to remind you breakfast is at 9 AM. What do you do? Explain you won't be making it to breakfast, ignore the knocking or just rush what you were planning to take your time doing?
I don't think any of us A) have the time to run up and knock on doors while we're prepping breakfast; B) have the desire to interrupt guests; C) want to treat our guests like they're recalcitrant children.
I certainly don't even like going to check the mail out the front door when I know guests are in their rooms. I don't want them to think I'm spying on them!
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personaly....
If I had driven several hours.......or flew for hours and drove a few to get to your place.....the likelyhood of over sleeping the next morning is pretty good...........if you offered to knock on my door......I'd definitely take you up on it.
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I've had a few guests tell me that they've stayed places that crank the house music up at 7:30-8 AM to insure no one has a chance to sleep in. These were not happy comments.
We provide alarm clocks and most guests use the alarms on their cellphones or watches to wake themselves up.
Yes, it is annoying for us when guests skip breakfast, but that's maybe one couple/month. Imagine the animosity if I woke up 100 couples/month!
Now, if a late arriving guest is going to oversleep there is no way I am going to be able to offer a wake-up knock as I won't even see the guest, I'll be asleep myself when they arrive.
Breakfast is an option, it is not a requirement. However, if it is an ongoing issue when the innkeeper has asked what time the guest would like breakfast and the guests don't show, the innkeeper can ask during check in if the guest would like a wake-up call on their cellphone. Rather than knocking on the doors.
It can be hard to tell WHICH door is being knocked on in these old houses and I wouldn't want panicked guests thinking something was wrong.
Still, with everything else I have to do in the morning, I really don't want to be someone's nanny, too.
(Of course, when I had to get up at 6AM to make a 9AM flight and, after being awake all night afraid I hadn't set the alarm properly, I promptly went to sleep as soon as the alarm went off, I was very happy the innkeeper woke me up to tell me to get my butt in gear!)
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